By Joel Bowman, on January 26th, 2011% One of the concepts of NLP that tends to be overlooked is the way thresholds influence human behavior. Everyone is, of course, familiar with the idea of the last straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. It wasn’t, of course, the final straw that did the breaking—it was rather the accumulation of straws over time. A camel, after all, can carry only so much weight before giving up in one way or another.
The concept of thresholds has a long history in Western culture, and—I would assume—in other cultures as well. Most Westerns, for example, are familiar with the . . . → Read More: Thresholds
By Joel Bowman, on January 19th, 2011% CBS News recently ran a segment about the TV show “All in the Family,” which was a hit back in the 1970s. The theme of the segment was about the way the show represented political discourse at the time. Archie (played by Caroll O’Conner), who was an archconservative, and “Meathead” (played by Rob Reiner), an ultra-liberal. I had watched the show with regularity when it was popular, and the aspect of the CBS segment that came as a huge surprise to me was how slender Archie Bunker looked. Back in the 70s, I had thought of him as fat.
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